I drink Alcohol every day, 6-12 light beers with an occasional tequila shot. I have suffered from depression all my life I believe. I carry heavy equipment around for my job & got a script for hydrocodone 7.5 about six years ago. I have become physically & mentally dependant. I now cannot drink any alcohol without having a pain killer as it keeps me alert it does not make me drowsy nor depressed. I am worried about my health, I have gone one day without my hydrocodone & it makes me very depressed. I can't have more than one or two beers without my pain pills. I found this fourm & I need some advice on how to get off these pain pills without going to rehab. I currently take 3 to 4 a day & only when I drink. It has had an affect on my libido, when Im with a woman & have had 3 or 4 pain killlers I can't get an erection unless there is some major forplay & after that if I have had those pills I can't c**, so I have to sleep it off untill the morning. I have built up a tolerence while drinking so I normally take one pill after an hour.
Need some advice on how to quit without going to rehab.
Hi there wow such a cocktail i guess my advice would be is get profesional help i.e gp i would most certainly reduce the amount of beer intake to start with. Nothing is impossible and im sure you can do it but i think you are going to need lots of support whats your outside support like ? family friends groups etc? jaxx
Pillpopper,
13 weeks ago was the end of my ywo year run of a 12-pack/day and 30-45-60 Lortab/regular vikes/oxy/blow/crack, whatever I could get my hands on. I understand the varience in the 6-12 beers a night. I sometimes only had 2-3 beers a night because my body would not allow me to drink. I would get the hot flashes and all sweaty, throw up. I did throw up every night usually at the end of the night. It was nasty stuf all black coffee ground stuff. I did not know until after I got clean that I have been throwing up blood nightly for years. The impotence...Yeah of qourse your body is so numb you cant feel anything! I thought I was superman in bed when I first discovered. That lasted a month or so.
Here is how I quit: I was ordering off the internet and having packages come to my house 2-3-5 times a week. Sometimes they came twice a day. I started selling them to make up my loss. That was short lived and I took more than I was selling. Finally I wouldnt sell any, they were ALL for me. THAT was the life; I was an impotent, broke, throwing up sick, thieving alcoholic and addict. Of course my alcoholism was 'cured' when I could no longer drink because the tylenol in pills would not allow me to drink, that was my rationale. Unfortunatley I was last the to know that I was an addict and a drunk. EVERYONE around me knew that I was sick except for me. Always the last to know. I thought I was keeping it together. I had to be taught what unmanagability reallly was.
So last crisp day of January this year I went to go get my package at the UPS sort facility. All went well and I was on my way home managed to get a bunch in my belly. Then I was pulled over by a sherriff. I stopped and I was surrounded by other dark colored vehicles. Federal DEA agents had been watching me and I was arrested, thrown in jail and our house was raided. I was released from jail and eventualy charged with 24 felonies. The day I was released I went to the treatment center in town, was told what to do to get county funding and I went into out patient treatment. The professionals told me "Its gonna suck" getting this out of your system. I detoxed with no medical supervision and I was told that I will not die from this. During that time I went to AA and NA meetings daily sometimes twice daily. I got a sponsor right away.
I began working the steps and have been doing so since. I have not had a snort, puff, drink or pill since that last day of January of this year. I never knew there was a way out of the hell I was living. I lived to be high and got high to live. I was incapable of dealing with life in the end. I neede drugs and booze to function. Today I need my meetings and my steps to function. The trade off is huge. I live a much better life today. I have a full heart and I have to learned to love again. I was sick of being sick.
How low are you willing to go? You can die from what you are doing and many do. Get to some meetings and do the work. Sex is HUGE motivator in itself I would think LMAO.
Hang in there,
Keep posting,
Ben
13 weeks ago was the end of my ywo year run of a 12-pack/day and 30-45-60 Lortab/regular vikes/oxy/blow/crack, whatever I could get my hands on. I understand the varience in the 6-12 beers a night. I sometimes only had 2-3 beers a night because my body would not allow me to drink. I would get the hot flashes and all sweaty, throw up. I did throw up every night usually at the end of the night. It was nasty stuf all black coffee ground stuff. I did not know until after I got clean that I have been throwing up blood nightly for years. The impotence...Yeah of qourse your body is so numb you cant feel anything! I thought I was superman in bed when I first discovered. That lasted a month or so.
Here is how I quit: I was ordering off the internet and having packages come to my house 2-3-5 times a week. Sometimes they came twice a day. I started selling them to make up my loss. That was short lived and I took more than I was selling. Finally I wouldnt sell any, they were ALL for me. THAT was the life; I was an impotent, broke, throwing up sick, thieving alcoholic and addict. Of course my alcoholism was 'cured' when I could no longer drink because the tylenol in pills would not allow me to drink, that was my rationale. Unfortunatley I was last the to know that I was an addict and a drunk. EVERYONE around me knew that I was sick except for me. Always the last to know. I thought I was keeping it together. I had to be taught what unmanagability reallly was.
So last crisp day of January this year I went to go get my package at the UPS sort facility. All went well and I was on my way home managed to get a bunch in my belly. Then I was pulled over by a sherriff. I stopped and I was surrounded by other dark colored vehicles. Federal DEA agents had been watching me and I was arrested, thrown in jail and our house was raided. I was released from jail and eventualy charged with 24 felonies. The day I was released I went to the treatment center in town, was told what to do to get county funding and I went into out patient treatment. The professionals told me "Its gonna suck" getting this out of your system. I detoxed with no medical supervision and I was told that I will not die from this. During that time I went to AA and NA meetings daily sometimes twice daily. I got a sponsor right away.
I began working the steps and have been doing so since. I have not had a snort, puff, drink or pill since that last day of January of this year. I never knew there was a way out of the hell I was living. I lived to be high and got high to live. I was incapable of dealing with life in the end. I neede drugs and booze to function. Today I need my meetings and my steps to function. The trade off is huge. I live a much better life today. I have a full heart and I have to learned to love again. I was sick of being sick.
How low are you willing to go? You can die from what you are doing and many do. Get to some meetings and do the work. Sex is HUGE motivator in itself I would think LMAO.
Hang in there,
Keep posting,
Ben
Hi and Welcome Pillpopper!
Ben gave you a pretty good answer to your question there.
I just wanted to say welcome and feel free to ask questions!
Ben gave you a pretty good answer to your question there.
I just wanted to say welcome and feel free to ask questions!
